Director of Product Management, Observability

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter.

By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.What is

The Role Every outcome on the Elastic platform starts with data getting in. Streams, Elastic’s telemetry pipeline, is the shared ingest layer for Observability, Security, and Search. It collects data from any source, processes and routes it, and stores it in Elasticsearch or the customer’s own object storage, all built on open standards like Open Telemetry and Prometheus. As Director of Product Management, you will own Streams end to end and lead the PM team behind it.

Your job is to make Elastic the easiest platform to bring data to, for every solution and every customer.

What You Will Be Doing Own the strategy and roadmap for data collection, ingestion, processing and routing, and the integrations framework.

Define and track KPIs focused on product and feature adoption

Partner with Observability, Security, and Search product leaders to provide a shared service everyone can leverage

Make getting data ingestion self-service, with time-to-first-data measured in minutes.

Lead a team of distributed product managers and enable them to deliver measurable outcomes.

Drive roadmap priorities by working with customers, internal teams, and the community

Work with engineers and designers to scope and define compelling features

Enable sales, marketing, and partners with clear messaging and positioning

What You Bring 10+ years in product management, including 4+ years leading PM teams in data infrastructure, observability, or data pipelines.

Deep technical fluency in telemetry ingest:
Open Telemetry, Prometheus, log processing, routing, and agent management.

Experience shipping SaaS products with usage-based pricing, and building platform capabilities shared by several product lines.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Familiarity with the Elastic Stack is a plus Additional Information
- We Take Care of Our People As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are;

we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary

Health coverage for you and your family in many locations

Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles

Generous number of vacation days each year Increase your impact
- We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service

Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for…